Thieves steal paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from Italian private museum

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europeculture17h ago

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Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings stolen in Italian job Paitings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions were stolen in a heist on a museum near the Italian city of Parma, police say. Four masked men entered the Magnani Rocca Foundation villa on 22 March, police said, making off with Les Poissons by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Still Life with Cherries by Paul Cézanne and Odalisque on the Terrace by Henri Matisse. The gang were in and out in the space of three minutes, Italian media reports, and were only interrupted by the museum's alarm system, preventing them from stealing more.

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